English → Latin
“heart-breaking” in Latin
miserābilispitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, patheticflēbilislamentable; doleful, tearfulacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, vimaximusbiggest, largest; loudest; unencumbered
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
heart-breaking
miserabilis: flebilis: animum exedens: quod magnam (maximam) miserationem habet (Cic.): acerbissimus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for heart-breaking?
- The usual Latin words for “heart-breaking” are miserābilis, flēbilis, acerbus; also maximus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.